Title: Strategic Intelligence Monitor on Personal Health Systems Phase 3 (SIMPHS 3) - Report on the methodological set-up for the SIMPHS3 research

This report presents the methodological set-up for the SIMPHS3 study, whose overall objective is the analysis of how Health Information Technologies (HIT) may facilitate integration in the provision of health and social care services in specific European regions and settings. To this end a number of integrated care and independent living initiatives have to be selected for building case studies. The analysis of these cases should facilitate the definition of best practices in integrated care and independent living and should help identify the potential transferability of specific models to other regions or settings. The scope of this methodological report is therefore to define: a) The approach to the selection and development of the case studies on ICT enabled integrated care services and b) A framework of analysis that facilitates the definition of best practice and takes into account transferability aspects.